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Pamela S. Douglas

Pamela S. Douglas is an American cardiologist at Duke University, a past president of the American College of Cardiology, and leader of the REPRIEVE statin trial in HIV.

Pamela S. Ohashi

Pamela Ohashi is a Canadian immunologist known for work on T-cell activation and tolerance, and directs the Tumor Immunotherapy Program at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto.

Pandurang

Atmaram Pandurang (आत्माराम पांडुरंग, 1823–1898) was a Bombay physician and social reformer who founded the Prarthana Samaj in 1867 and served as Sheriff of Bombay in 1879.

Pandurangan Vijayanand

Pandurangan Vijayanand is a physician-scientist in immunology who leads the William K. Bowes Distinguished Professorship at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, studying T-cell genomics in asthma, lung cancer, and COVID-19.

Pankaj J. Pasricha

Pankaj J. Pasricha, also known as Pankaj Jay Pasricha, is a gastroenterologist and neurogastroenterology researcher who introduced botulinum toxin treatment for achalasia and chairs medicine at Mayo Clinic in Arizona.

Paola D Vermeer

Paola D Vermeer is an American cancer biologist who heads the Vermeer Lab at Sanford Research in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, studying how nerves recruited by tumors affect immunity.

Paolo A. Ascierto

Paolo A. Ascierto, also known as Paolo Antonio Ascierto, is an Italian medical oncologist who led melanoma and immunotherapy research at the Istituto Nazionale Tumori in Naples.

Paolo Boffetta

Paolo Boffetta is an Italian cancer epidemiologist who studies how tobacco, alcohol, occupation, and environment affect cancer risk, and teaches at the University of Bologna.

Paolo Calabresi

Paolo Calabresi is an Italian neurologist and full professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome, known for work on striatal synaptic plasticity in Parkinson's disease.

Paolo Fusar-Poli

Paolo Fusar-Poli is an Italian psychiatrist and Professor of Preventive Psychiatry at King's College London, known for research on detecting and preventing psychosis before the first episode.

Paolo G. Camici

Paolo G. Camici is an Italian cardiologist and physician-scientist who characterized coronary microvascular dysfunction and hibernating myocardium, and is Professor of Cardiology at Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan.

Paolo Golino

Paolo Golino is an Italian cardiologist and physician-scientist, Professor of Cardiology at the University of Campania and Chief of Cardiology at the Monaldi Hospital in Naples since 2018.

Paolo M. Comoglio

Paolo M. Comoglio, also known as Paolo Maria Comoglio, is an Italian molecular oncologist who identified the MET and RON receptors and introduced the concept of invasive growth.

Paolo Prandoni

Paolo Prandoni, born in 1947, is an Italian physician and thrombosis researcher at the University of Padua known for advancing venous thromboembolism diagnosis and treatment.

Paolo Sassone-Corsi

Paolo Sassone-Corsi (1956–2020) was an Italian-born molecular biologist at UC Irvine who showed how the circadian clock is built into chromosomes and metabolism, notably proving the clock protein CLOCK is a chromatin-modifying enzyme.

Paolo Spirito

Paolo Spirito is an Italian cardiologist at Policlinico di Monza known for research on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, including his landmark 2000 study linking wall thickness to sudden-death risk.

Paolo Vineis

Paolo Vineis is an Italian physician and cancer epidemiologist who holds the Chair of Environmental Epidemiology at Imperial College London, working in molecular epidemiology and exposomics.

Pardis C. Sabeti

Pardis C. Sabeti, also known as Pardis Sabeti, is an Iranian-born American computational geneticist and physician-scientist at the Broad Institute and Harvard, known for genomic work on Ebola and Lassa.

Paresh Vyas

Paresh Vyas is a physician-scientist who is Professor of Haematology at the University of Oxford and leads an MRC Molecular Haematology Unit group studying leukemia stem cells in acute myeloid leukemia.

Parkash S. Gill

Parkash S. Gill is an American oncologist and physician-scientist at USC's Keck School of Medicine, known for Kaposi's sarcoma research and developing three FDA-approved cancer drugs.

Pascal Chanez

Pascal Chanez is a French physician-scientist in respiratory medicine and allergology, professor at Marseille and head of its severe asthma clinic, co-author of the mepolizumab trials DREAM and MENSA.

Pascal Geldsetzer

Pascal Geldsetzer is a physician-scientist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford whose 2025 Nature study found shingles vaccination reduced dementia diagnoses by about 20%.

Pascal J. Goldschmidt‐Clermont

Pascal J. Goldschmidt-Clermont is a Belgian-trained cardiologist who led cardiology at Duke, directed Ohio State's Heart and Lung Research Institute, and was dean of the University of Miami's medical school from 2006 to 2016.

Pascale Allotey

Pascale Allotey is a global public health researcher who has directed the World Health Organization's Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research since 2022.

Pascale Guicheney

Pascale Guicheney, born 1952, is a French geneticist and emeritus Inserm research director in Paris, known for gene discoveries in long-QT syndrome, merosin-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy, and selenoprotein-related myopathy.

Pasi A. Jänne

Pasi A. Jänne is an American thoracic medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston who co-discovered EGFR mutations that make lung tumors respond to targeted drugs.

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is an independent nonprofit organization in Washington, DC, authorized by Congress in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 to fund comparative clinical effectiveness research.

Patricia A. Buffler

Patricia A. Buffler (1938–2013) was an American epidemiologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who led major studies of childhood leukemia and served as dean of its School of Public Health.

Patricia A. Gabow

Patricia A. Gabow is an American nephrologist and professor emerita at the University of Colorado who led Denver Health from 1992 to 2012 and defined the genetics of polycystic kidney disease.

Patricia A. Ganz

Patricia A. Ganz is an American medical oncologist at UCLA, known as a pioneer in cancer quality-of-life measurement and survivorship care, directing cancer prevention research there since 1993.